Trump reverses trans student's bathroom rights

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already. Obama set guidelines allowing trans students in schools and universities to use whichever toilet they identified with. Trump has halted these guidelines indefinitely.

I know that it's a win for feminists, but it's left a sour taste in my mouth because it's Trump...

This is something that really bothers me - the conflation of gender critical feminism with far right views. For those who lack critical thinking and leap to conclusions from bombastic news headlines (which, without sounding pompous, is most people), it spells bad news for the future.

In the USA conservative women are joining forces with radfems to protect the interests of women against the trans agenda. I don't have a problem with that. It's all women who are being affected so all women should speak.

The indy depicts this as contradictory but hopefully will turn out not to be - trans people shouldn't be discriminated against (full employment rights, no gendered restrictions on dress codes etc) but neither should they be permitted to access single sex facilities merely by 'identifying'.

It will be interesting to see where this goes. I.e. whether Trump will realize this goes against his advantaging men in all things, or whether he will state - which would be sensible, but we know he is not - that having to use bathrooms according to sex, not gender is no discrimination against trans.

A lot of Trump's supporters are born-again Christians and social conservatives. Both groups strongly support protecting "our" women and girls from men in showers etc. The ghastly Lila,Perry is as much a matter of concern to them as he is to feminists (and the poor girls in his class).

This explains Trump's decision. The attacks on abortion we are likely to see increasing during his presidency will be designed to appeal to the same group. So we're allies over the trans agenda but are unlikely to see eye to eye over many others

I don't imagine so, though you're right in theory. Because if you don't accept that transwomen should be in women's loos, showers, hospital wards, etc then suddenly reversing tack over prisons would look extremely weird, even to people I would probably think were pretty weird themselves.

Tbh honest, I think if Trump had even gotten a sniff of how this agenda 'puts women in their place' he would have backed it to the hilt. I think he could shift position on this one if someone (using very small words) explains to him how it could be advantageous.